BIB_ID
311862
Accession number
MA 431.48
Creator
Scott, Anne Rutherford, 1739-1819.
Display Date
1813 Dec. 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.5 cm
Notes
Address panel (partially addressed in the hand of Sir Walter Scott) with postmarks and evidence of a seal, and addressed to Mrs. Scott (presumably Jessie's mother, Elizabeth McCulloch) in Corke, Ireland.
Part of a large collection of Sir Walter Scott correspondence; see collection-level record for more information.
Recipient is Jessie Scott (later Huxley), the daughter of Thomas Scott (1774-1823) and niece of Sir Walter Scott.
Written from "Geo[rge] Street no. 73."
Year of writing from postmark.
Part of a large collection of Sir Walter Scott correspondence; see collection-level record for more information.
Recipient is Jessie Scott (later Huxley), the daughter of Thomas Scott (1774-1823) and niece of Sir Walter Scott.
Written from "Geo[rge] Street no. 73."
Year of writing from postmark.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1900.
Summary
Thanking her for an excellent letter; hoping her father returns soon, remarking that "the Americans wish now for peace," and hoping that it pleases the Almighty to grant this; saying she is glad to hear that Jessie disapproves of the way Sundays are spent in Cork, and hoping "noting will ever Tempt you to act so improperly;" sending her love and discussing family members.
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